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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:43:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Ogren <pitlord@dementia.net>
To: "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su>
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Subject: Re: cannot make suck work
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> 
> I created the /usr/local/etc/sucknewsrc file which looks like this
> 
> alt.fan.tolkien -1
> rec.arts.books.tolkien -1
> relcom.education -1
> relcom.fido.ru.unix -1
[snip]
> 
> When I run this script I get the message that there are no articles on
> news.tomsk.su:

> 0 Articles to download, 0 dupes removed
> Processing History File, experimental version
> Elapsed Time = 0 mins 0.00 seconds
> Processed history, 0 dupes removed
> Total Articles to Download: 0
> No articles.
> Closed connection to mpeks.tomsk.su
> vas#
 
Instead of putting -1 for the message number, you should use 0. -1 just
makes suck update the newsrc file; it's sort of like the catchup feature
of tin.

That should (hopefully) fix your problem.

Eric